Wrong lottery number prompts lawsuit
A New Jersey TV station that broadcast the wrong lottery numbers is being sued by a local woman for $75,000. Rakel Daniele’s attorney claims she was “severely damaged” by the disappointment of learning that she had not in fact won $250,000 in the lottery, and that WABC’s mistakes were “beyond all possible bounds of decency, and were atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.”
Middle schooler's gallantry leads to suspension
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A Virginia middle schooler has been suspended after opening a door for a female visitor whose arms were full. Students are banned from opening exterior doors, and school superintendent Charles Turner said that gallantry is no excuse. “You have to have a system and that system has to be consistent,” Turner said.
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